Good Will Burning
We all saw it. It doesn’t take an experienced college football coach or analyst to breakdown this game. For academic purposes I’ll give you my breakdown:
- Texas’ young and inexperienced offensive line: Looked even younger and less experienced than we could have imagined. Wickline might as well make this unit even younger and less experienced by benching senior Cedric Flowers, who was just as bad as the freshmen, and the only Longhorn to visibly lose composure.
- Tyrone Swoopes: “Earth to Charlie Strong,” Swoopes is not your answer. An expression that my parent’s generation used seems appropriate here, “He doesn’t have it.” There are at least two better quarterbacks right there on your very own roster, maybe more.
- Shawn Watson: He’s not qualified for this job and it shows. I’ll leave it at that so my head doesn’t explode.
- Defensive line: The strength of the Longhorns’ strength got mashed, manhandled and dominated. Perhaps Ridgeway and Jackson aren’t as good as they looked when playing alongside dominator Malcolm Brown. Let’s hope that Ridgeway and Jackson really weren’t totally healthy and will be better when they are.
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With this game Charlie Strong burned through most if not all of his season two goodwill. I’m not confident that he knows how to turn around a program that has lost three straight games in a totally embarrassing manner.
As I was getting in bed early Sunday morning, thinking about the game, I chuckled over the connection between Strong and his staff with one of my favorite moments from Seinfeld. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Hang tough.
HooK ‘eM,
W.E.
Over/Under Results
If anything could make me happy after this game it was the record 20 entries, including three from first time entrants, which we received here at Willie Earl’s Longhorn Blog. It was a very competitive contest with too many players to mention scoring eight correct answers. Helen Frink and Brother Rick Mosher were truly outstanding in scoring nine correct. Nine is almost always a winning score but disappointingly for Helen and Rick, not this week.
Scoring a perfect 10, Wade Wallace turned in a comeback performance that Tiger Woods can only dream about. Correct me if I’m wrong out there, but I believe this is Wades first Over/Under victory since his halcyon days of 2008-2011. Well done Boss of Floss and welcome back to the victory circle.
W.E.
